Is American Science Doomed......

.... when ****wits like[link=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/congressman-evolution-is-lie-from-hell-8202896.html] this guy[/link] manage to get appointed to the Senate House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. The guy is obviously not there to aid science but to block stuff that does not fit with his religious delusions, which is basically all modern scientific theory.

.... when ****wits like this guy manage to get appointed to the Senate House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. The guy is obviously not there to aid science but to block stuff that does not fit with his religious delusions, which is basically all modern scientific theory.

[quote]A recent Gallup Poll suggests that 46 percent of Americans think God made humans within the past 10,000 years, while only half the nation believes in evolution. [/quote]
Nuff said.
Its already doomed.

Quote:A recent Gallup Poll suggests that 46 percent of Americans think God made humans within the past 10,000 years, while only half the nation believes in evolution.

Create a following based on any belief and you'll be asked to defend it at some point if you still want votes and support.
Its too easy for individuals to just believe charismatic people/ or not have the gumption to challenge them.
Societies only really evolve when science & learning is allowed to flourish and benefit all; religion and protectionist business practices often just seem to get in the way.

Create a following based on any belief and you'll be asked to defend it at some point if you still want votes and support.
Its too easy for individuals to just believe charismatic people/ or not have the gumption to challenge them.

Societies only really evolve when science & learning is allowed to flourish and benefit all; religion and protectionist business practices often just seem to get in the way.

[quote]Why shouldn't that opinion be heard in scientific forum?[/quote]
Because it is not science, its wilful ignorance. No one who is in denial of the overwhelming scientific evidence for an old Earth and universe should be allowed to influence funding of the sciences. The fact that so many Americans believe the lie that the Earth is just a few thousand years old are due to influential dickheads like this senator. There are 2 types of young Earth creationists, the gullible true believers and the liars who use them as useful idiots. The likes of Ken Hamm who earns a very good living peddling this tripe is one of the latter and I suspect that Broun is one also.
What the hell has happened to the party of Lincoln, T. Roosevelt and Eisenhower that is now full to the brim with nut jobs like this clown. Romney's position on evolution seems a bit ambiguous so he scares me somewhat as well.

Quote:Why shouldn't that opinion be heard in scientific forum?

Because it is not science, its wilful ignorance. No one who is in denial of the overwhelming scientific evidence for an old Earth and universe should be allowed to influence funding of the sciences. The fact that so many Americans believe the lie that the Earth is just a few thousand years old are due to influential dickheads like this senator. There are 2 types of young Earth creationists, the gullible true believers and the liars who use them as useful idiots. The likes of Ken Hamm who earns a very good living peddling this tripe is one of the latter and I suspect that Broun is one also.

What the hell has happened to the party of Lincoln, T. Roosevelt and Eisenhower that is now full to the brim with nut jobs like this clown. Romney's position on evolution seems a bit ambiguous so he scares me somewhat as well.

[quote]Otherwise the forum evolves (pun intended) into one that decides the 'truth as we know it'[/quote]
Its not a forum its a scientific committee, so should have people on it who a) understand science and b) are capable of critical thinking.
The Bible is not a science book so those how treat it as such should stay on the stupid bench and well away from important jobs.
[quote]There's no reason why he should be silenced just because his is not the mainstream view.[/quote]
For **** sake its not a question of following the mainstream view it is following a view that has been debunked for over a hundred years, and has precisely zero supporting evidence. If you really want to drag us back to the 13th century by all means keep supporting idiots like this.

Quote:Otherwise the forum evolves (pun intended) into one that decides the 'truth as we know it'

Its not a forum its a scientific committee, so should have people on it who a) understand science and b) are capable of critical thinking.

The Bible is not a science book so those how treat it as such should stay on the stupid bench and well away from important jobs.

Quote:There's no reason why he should be silenced just because his is not the mainstream view.

For **** sake its not a question of following the mainstream view it is following a view that has been debunked for over a hundred years, and has precisely zero supporting evidence. If you really want to drag us back to the 13th century by all means keep supporting idiots like this.

[quote]Why shouldn't that opinion be heard in scientific forum?[/quote]
If it's based on a faith or a belief that has no basis in science then the opinion isn't relevant to science. It would be like someone at a conference of dentists who believes in the Tooth Fairy expecting to be heard due to some notion that everyone's opinion is relevant. Everyone's opinion isn't relevant.

Quote:Why shouldn't that opinion be heard in scientific forum?

If it's based on a faith or a belief that has no basis in science then the opinion isn't relevant to science. It would be like someone at a conference of dentists who believes in the Tooth Fairy expecting to be heard due to some notion that everyone's opinion is relevant. Everyone's opinion isn't relevant.

He is entitled to express a point of view, but if he had any credibility on a science committee, he must have lost it.
He's wrong anyway, the earth isn't 9,000 years old, it's only 6,000. See the proof here http://toptenproofs.com/article_youngearth.php
(You can throw away good money on the CD set as well if you want)

He is entitled to express a point of view, but if he had any credibility on a science committee, he must have lost it.